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Life’s better with company. Everybody Every Developer needs Copilot 🧑‍✈️

Hello everyone 👋 and welcome to the first check-in on your pair-programmer Copilot. I will be posting similar checkin’s regularly making it easy for you to keep up to date with the latest and the greatest developments in the world of AI (well, specifically Copilot). Let’s get underway! ⏭️

GitHub Copilot now available for teachers 🧑‍🏫

We’re excited to announce the free availability of GitHub Copilot for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus. So far, we’ve been able to offer multiple benefits, including free cloud compute to teachers via GitHub Codespaces 🆕

If you’re interested in sharing your experience, feedback, or ideas, please join the conversation with other verified teachers on GitHub Global Campus. 🤝 My colleague @samus-aran will be around in the Education space to help you out. ⭐

Can AI tools write tech blogs? 🤔

Since its launch, GitHub Copilot's exciting features have everyone buzzing 🐝. Did you know that you can write technical blogs using GitHub Copilot? In this post see @mitsuhiko sharing his experience with Copilot writing Rust code swiftly and accurately.

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot 🎱

Your magical mind reader 🪄 and AI pair programmer doesn’t just help you write tech blogs, it can do much more than that. It can help you code faster, be more productive, And it can do more than suggest code. Go over these additional and valuable use cases by @blackgirlbytes to get deep into the world of AI. 🌐

REMINDER: Update to Copilot 1.44.0.0 VS extension 🎉

Heads up! We’ve just released Copilot 1.44.0.0 VS extension, please update to the latest version if you haven't already, as it contains various improvements that help address issues on VS 17.3.x

Take our survey! Tell us what you think of the new home of GitHub community 🗳️

We want to check in about your experience with github.com/community powered by Discussions and invite you to provide thoughts and feedback on this survey!

Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity 📖

GitHub Copilot has been improving developer productivity and happiness for almost a year. After its release to the public, our engineers asked themselves a tough question: What does it actually mean to be productive and can developer productivity be measured? ❔

We recruited 95 professional developers to answer those questions quantitatively with a varied research effort aimed at evaluating the impact of Copilot on developer productivity and delight. These devs were split up randomly into two groups measuring how long it took them to code. One group used GitHub Copilot to complete the task, and the other one didn’t. Results were quite impressive, see the illustration below. 🤩

A massive 55% less time to code is an achievement and a big leap forward in terms of being productive. 💪 For more details around the survey and research, please checkout this blogpost by @ikaliam.

To wind things up, I wanted to leave you with another quote from Danny Hills that is so true about our research on Copilot:

"One of the greatest joy in computer programming is discovering a new, faster, more efficient tool for doing something."

If you have any pressing Copilot questions, please feel free to post them below or start a new discussion. For the most part, see our extensive list of FAQ’s. 🚀